Hello Everyone!
For my Photo Essay I chose to show ways I think
Technology can help the Environment!
Technology can help the Environment!
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My first set of photos shows that the phone book/yellow pages can also be found online with the help of the internet. I just feel that its such a waste of money to chop down thousands of trees and pay someone to deliver them. I think they should be printed only for the people who want them. Also, when learning about this topic I found out that since 1992, it has been illegal to dump telephone directories into the regular trash! According to the Star Tribune, "85 percent of the telephone directories are dumped into the trash. State pollution officials call it one of Minnesota's biggest solid-waste problems." Crazy to think those phone books are causing the biggest waste problem in our state and I never use mine!
Can you imagine if we didn't have to print all those phone books?
Newspapers VS Online Newspaper Viewing
Again, considering the paper and ink we go through everyday to print these newspapers when the information can be found with the click of a mouse. According to this article, most American's wouldn't care a lot if local newspapers folded.
"When it comes to local news, more people say they get that news from local television stations than any other source..."
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Paying your bills ...And paying your bills online!
According to the article Global Warming Survival Guide, "Eliminating your paper trail by banking and paying bills online does more than save trees. It also helps reduce fuel consumption by the trucks and planes that transport paper checks. If every U.S. home viewed and paid its bills online, the switch would cut solid waste by 1.6 billion tons a year and curb greenhouse-gas emissions by 2.1 million tons a year, according to Javelin Strategy & Research. Also, to avoid unnecessary carbon dioxide-emitting car trips to the bank on payday, ask your employer to directly deposit your paycheck. You'll get your money faster that way too!!!"
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Instead of meeting up with groups from your class you could virtually meet up over the internet and have a video conference!
This could save you gas, time and money. =)
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Sending letters through the mail service takes a lot longer than sending an email and can cost you postage, stationary and envelopes.
Plus when you use email, you'll
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Field Trip VS Virtual Field Trip
Last but not least...
Paper Assignments VS Blogging
Well, blogging saves paper but I didn't realize how much it actually helps reduce the amount of paper used for classes. The pictures of the piles of paper (on the left) are from not all but one of my classes this semester... And the semester isn't over yet! Just think, what if all your classes had blogging homework?
Yay, for 21st Century Learning!!!
I hope you enjoyed my photo essay on ways that technology helps the environment! I'm excited to hear what you think=) Have a good weekend!
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Cool Shar!
ReplyDeleteCouldn't believe there are so many ways to save money, time, and the environment with all of these different technologies!
I recognize some people in these pictures :)
Good job Shar!
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ReplyDeleteI liked your idea for this! Technology is becoming more and more advanced and you really represented that. Good job!
Shar, your pictures turned out really well! I really like the colored borders and how you segmented a lot of them, it looks really good! PS. who's that stud that caught that monster of a fish?! =P
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ReplyDeleteGreat information. I knew the internet provided lots of resources verses using the large amounts of paper we do, but not in the ways you thought of. You offered so many alternatives. You also had great angles on your pictures. Very awesome job!
Shar- This was a really good idea! The internet really does help save on a lot of pollution! I think that you should show a lot of professors this point. I think it makes a lot of sense and why not do homework over the internet! Now UMD requires students to have lap tops, so it wouldn't be a problem for students to do all of their stuff via the internet. Good post!!:)
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ReplyDeleteThis was a really great eye opener! I loved your pictures. These were a lot of really great ideas that I had never thought of. I have never heard of a virtual field trip, definitely a great idea (although its so much fun to go do something hands on somewhere)Anywho, wonderful job!
Awesome job with this Shar! Funny story...right as I was reading this, the part about paying bills online, my roommate was wandering around looking for envelopes and stamps and stuff to mail our utilities bills. So, I told him to investigate to see if we can pay online! Sure enough we can!
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